Abstract
Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Osaka 558-8585, JapanA&A 396, L1-L4(2002). A&A402, 443-455(2003)ABSTRACTContext.Aims. The CANGAROO-II telescope observed sub-TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253. The emission regionwas extended with a radial size of 0.3-0.6 degree. On the contrary, H.E.S.S could not confirm this emission and gave upper l imits at the levelof the CANGAROO-II flux. In order to resolve this discrepancy, we analyzed new observational results for NGC 253 by CANGAROO-III andalso assessed the results by CANGAROO-II.Methods. Observation was made with three telescopes of the CANGAROO-III in October 2004. We analyzed three-fold coincidence data bythe robust Fisher Discriminant method to discriminate gamma ray events from hadron events.Results. The result by the CANGAROO-III was negative. The upper limit of gamma ray flux was 5.8% Crab at 0.58 TeV for po int-sourceassumption. In addition, the significance of the excess flux o f gamma-rays by the CANGAROO-II was lowered to less than 4 sigma afterassessing treatment of malfunction of photomultiplier tubes.Key words. gamma rays: observation – galaxies: starburst – galaxies: i ndividual: NGC 253 – galaxies: halos: cosmic rays
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